Personal Ministry to a Christian Faith

Personal Ministry of Steve Kellar

20th century

20th century
1905 French law on the separation of Church and State
1906 Albert Schweitzer publishes The Quest of the Historical Jesus (English translation 1910)
1906 Biblia Hebraica
1906-1909 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, CA begins modern Pentecostal movement
1907-1912 Nikolai of Japan, Archbishop of Japanese Orthodox Church
1909 Scofield Reference Bible
1909-1911 The Rosicrucian Fellowship, an international association of Christian mystics, founded at Mount Ecclesia
1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference launches modern missions movement and modern ecumenical movement; 5-point statement of the Presbyterian General Assembly, also used by Fundamentalists
1910-1915 The Fundamentals, a 12-volume collection of essays by 64 British and American scholars and preachers, a foundation of Fundamentalism
1913 Our Lady appear to 3 young people, in Fatima, Portugal. They were Jacinta Marto, Tiago Veloso and Lcia (Sister Lucia)
1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
1914 Welsh Church Act 1914
1914 Iglesia ni Cristo incorporated in the Philippines
1915-1917 Armenian Genocide
1916 Father Divine founded International Peace Mission movement
1916 And did those feet in ancient time
1917 Restitution of the Moscow Patriarchy with Tikhon as patriarch
1917 True Jesus Church founded in Beijing
1918 Execution of Holy Martyrs of Russia, including the last tsar, Nicholas II, and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna
1919 Karl Barth’s Commentary on Romans is published, critiquing Liberal Christianity and beginning the neo-orthodox movement
1921 Oxford Group founded at Oxford
1923 Aimee Semple McPherson built Angelus Temple
1925 Scopes Trial, caused division among Fundamentalists
1925 United Church of Canada formed
1926 Father Charles Coughlin’s first radio broadcast
1927 Pope Pius XI decrees Comma Johanneum open to dispute
1929 Lateran Treaty signed containing three agreements between kingdom of Italy and the papacy.
1930 Rastafari movement founded
1931 Jehovah’s Witnesses founded see 1884 for more information.
1931 Christ the Redeemer (statue) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1933 Catholic Worker Movement founded
1934 Herbert W. Armstrong founded Radio Church of God
1935 Dr. Frank C. Laubach, known as “The Apostle to the Illiterates.” working in the Philippines, developed a literacy program that continues to teach millions of people to read.
1935 Rahlf’s critical edition of the Koine Greek Septuagint
1935 Billy Sunday, early U.S. radio evangelist
1939 Southern and Northern US branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church, along with the Methodist Protestant Church reunite to form The Methodist Church. Slavery had divided the church in the 1800s.
1940 Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos, world’s largest cross, 152.4 meters high
1942 National Association of Evangelicals founded
1945 Roman Catholic sex abuse cases begins
1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer is executed by the Nazis
1945 Ludwig Mller
1945 The Nag Hammadi library is discovered.
1946-1952 Revised Standard Version, revision of AV “based on consonantal Hebrew text” for OT and best available texts for NT, done in response to changes in English usage
1947 Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism by Carl F. H. Henry, a landmark of Evangelicalism versus Fundamentalism in US
1947 Oral Roberts founded Evangelistic Association
1947 Dead Sea scrolls discovered
1948 World Council of Churches is founded
1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, see also Christian Zionism
1949 evangelist Billy Graham preaches his first Los Angeles crusade
1950 New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures released
1950 Assumption of Mary decreed by Pope Pius XII
1950 Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Teresa
1951 The Last Temptation a fictional account of the life of Jesus written by Nikos Kazantzakis, wherin Christ’s divinity is juxtaposed with his humanity, is published, and promptly banned in many countries.
1951 Campus Crusade for Christ founded at UCLA
1952 Novum Testamentum Graece, critical edition of Greek NT, basis of modern translations
1952 C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity
1954 Unification Church founded
1954 U.S. Pledge of Allegiance modified by act of Congress from “one nation, indivisible” to “one nation under God, indivisible”
1956 In God We Trust designated U.S. national motto
1956 Anchor Bible Series
1956 The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
1957 United Church of Christ founded by ecumenical union of Congregationalists and Evangelical & Reformed, representing Calvinists and Lutherans
1957 English translation of Walter Bauer’s Wrterbuch …: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago Press
1958 Sedevacantism
1959 Family Radio founded
1961 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures released
1962-1965 Catholic Second Vatican Council, announced by Pope John XXIII in 1959, produced 16 documents which became official Roman Catholic teaching after approval by the Pope, purpose to renew “ourselves and the flocks committed to us”
1963 Martin Luther King leads a civil rights march in Washington, D.C.
1963 campaign by Madalyn Murray O’Hair results in U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting reading of Bible in public schools
1965 Reginald H. Fuller’s The Foundations of New Testament Christology
Rousas John Rushdoony founds Chalcedon Foundation
1966 Raymond E. Brown’s Commentary on the Gospel of John
1968 United Methodist Church formed with union of Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church, becoming the largest Methodist/Wesleyan church in the world
1970s The Jesus movement takes hold in the U.S. One-way.org
1970 Mass of Paul VI replaces Tridentine Mass
1970 The Late, Great Planet Earth futurist book by Hal Lindsey
1970? Chick Publications
1971 New American Standard Bible
1971 The Exorcist, a novel of demonic possession and the mysteries of the Catholic faith, is published.
1973 Trinity Broadcasting Network founded
1974 Jim Bakker founds PTL television ministry
1975 Bruce Metzger’s Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament
1976 Anneliese Michel, Bavarian woman, underwent exorcism against demon possession
1977 New Perspective on Paul
1977 Focus on the Family founded by James Dobson
1978 New International Version of the Bible is first published (revised in 1984), using a variety of Greek texts, Masoretic Hebrew texts, and current English style
1978-2005 Pope John Paul II, reaffirmed moral traditions (The Splendor of Truth)
1979 Moral Majority founded by Jerry Falwell
1979 Jesus (1979 film), most watched movie of all time according to New York Times
1979-1982? New King James Version, complete revision of 1611 AV, updates archaisms while retaining style
1985 Jesus Seminar founded
1985 E. P. Sanders’ Jesus and Judaism
1988 Christian Coalition
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese, is released by Universal Pictures, and promptly attacked as heretical by organized Christian and Catholic groups.
1989 New Revised Standard Version
1991 John P. Meier’s series A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, v. 1
1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church
1994 “Evangelicals & Catholics Together” [12]
1994 Porvoo Communion
1994 Answers In Genesis founded by Ken Ham
1997, Mar 5-10 World Council of Churches: Towards a Common Date for Easter, see also Reform of the date of Easter
1998, April 6 PBS Frontline: From Jesus to Christ
1999 International House of Prayer in Kansas City begins non-stop 24/7 continual prayer
1999, Oct 31 signing of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification between the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church

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